Whereas the members of Jewish Christianity were circumcised and adhered to dietary laws, the Pauline Christianity featured in Acts did not require Gentiles to be circumcised or to obey all of the Mosaic laws, which is consistent with Noahide Law.

Whereas Lang was worried about the advent of the Nazi regime, partly because of his Jewish heritage, his wife and screen writer Thea von Harbou had started to sympathize with the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the NSDAP in 1932.

Whereas Jewish philosophers often debate whether God is immanent or transcendent, and whether people have free will or their lives are determined, Halakha is a system through which any Jew acts to bring God into the world.

" Whereas the earlier Jewish philosophers extended the omniscience of God to include the free acts of man, and had argued that human freedom of decision was not affected by God's foreknowledge of its results, Ibn Daud, evidently following Alexander of Aphrodisias, excludes human action from divine foreknowledge.

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.

" Gillota also observed: " Whereas the schlemiel of Eastern Europe encountered problems that mostly affected Eastern European Jews ( such as anti-Semitism and economic survival ), Larry encounters problems that affect contemporary middle-to upper-class American Jews, namely, Jewish assimilation, secularism, intermarriage, and, as all of these suggest, the Jews ' precarious ethnic identity in an increasingly multicultural environment.

) Whereas Paul acknowledged that the Law of Moses and its observance were good when used correctly (" the law is good, if one uses it lawfully ", ), the Epistle of Barnabas condemns most Jewish practices, claiming that Jews had grossly misunderstood and misapplied the Law of Moses.

Whereas Jolson's film career skyrocketed after the 1927 release of The Jazz Singer, Jessel remained in smaller movie roles, often intended for audiences fond of Jewish and other " ethnic " humor.

Whereas Mendès-France was a French Jewish political figure who joined the Resistance, de la Mazière, an aristocrat who embraced Fascism, was one of 7, 000 French youth to fight on the Eastern Front wearing German uniforms.

Whereas in May and June 2005 victory of the Christian Democrats seemed highly likely, with some polls giving them an absolute majority, this picture changed shortly before the election at 18 September 2005.

Whereas only 25 % of the island's residents originate from Christian tribes in the Visayas and Luzon, this group owns 70 % of the island's arable agricultural land ( private ownership or cooperatives as farmer beneficiaries ).

Whereas he could not prevent a resounding victory of the CSU ( Christian Social Union of Bavaria ), he himself gained the best result for any SPD politician in Bavaria after the Second World War.

Whereas First Clement was an epistle, 2 Clement appears to be a transcript of an oral homily or sermon, making it the oldest existing Christian sermon outside of the New Testament.

Whereas early Christian architecture has side isles, transepts, a narthex and an atrium.

His MAJESTY THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND AND THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, EMPEROR OF INDIA, and His MAJESTY THE KING OF ' IRAQ, whereas they desire to consolidate the friendship and to maintain and perpetuate the relations of good understanding between their respective countries ; and Whereas His Britannic Majesty undertook in the Treaty of Alliance signed at Baghdad on the thirteenth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six of the Christian Era, corresponding to the twenty-eighth day of Jamadi-al-Ukhra, One thousand three hundred and forty-four, Hijrah, that he would take into active consideration at successive intervals of four years the question whether it was possible for him to press for the admission of ' Iraq into the League of Nations ; and

Whereas Latin and Greek Christian cultures became protected by the Roman and Byzantine empires respectively, Syriac Christianity often found itself marginalised and persecuted.

Whereas most of the other Churches had patron nations, such as France for the Catholics and Russia for the Orthodox, the Armenians now found themselves alone among Christian giants.

Whereas previously, they had covered traditional hymns, praise songs and contemporary Christian pop music, both Acappella and AVB now recorded and performed primarily original music, much of which was composed by Lancaster.

Whereas the Masoretic Text, of which the earliest surviving copy dates from the 9th century AD, teaches that " the Gods of the gentiles are nothing ", the corresponding passage in the Greek Septuagint, used by the early Christian Church, asserted that " all the gods of the heathens are devils.

Whereas the religion of the Jews could theoretically be contained within their own nation state and pose no threat to the wider Empire, it was not so with the early Christian community which was perceived at times to be an intrinsically destabilising influence and threat to the peace of Rome, a religio illicita.

Whereas Shi ' a Muslim outright reject ijtihad and do not imitate a mujtahid who practice ijtihad.

In doing so he stated the following: Whereas, through the leadership and efforts of Warith Deen Muhammad, the American Muslim Mission is on the path of economic progress and achieving growth through unity ...( I ) urge all citizens to engage in activities which promote economic progress.

Whereas the CRIF, the French Council of Muslim Faith ( CFCM ) and the LICRA denounced her statement, other groups like the MRAP and the LDH declared their intention of lodging a formal complaint.

Whereas Millat, despite his earlier womanizing and drinking, eventually becomes an angry fundamentalist and part of a Muslim brotherhood known as the Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation ( or KEVIN ).

Whereas the island was governed by an appointed Dutch official, native nobility retained certain influence, and the Muslim institutions of justice settled local court matters.

Whereas the usual organic surface-active agent is strongly sorbed at oil - water interfaces, the highly charged ions are most strongly sorbed at interfaces between water and insoluble materials exhibiting an ionic structure ( see Table 26-2 on p. 1678 ).

Whereas the primary meanings of the Lo Shu diagram seemed to have been based on its inner mathematical properties -- and we shall see that even its secondary meanings rested on some mathematical bases -- the urgent desire to place everything into categories of fives led to other groupings based on other numbers, until an exaggerated emphasis on mere numerology pervaded Chinese thought.

Whereas Durkheim focused on the society, Weber concentrated on the individuals and their actions ( see structure and action discussion ) and whereas Marx argued for the primacy of the material world over the world of ideas, Weber valued ideas as motivating actions of individuals, at least in the big picture.

Whereas MVC comes from the previous decade ( by work at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s and early 1980s ) and is based on observations of applications that ran on a single graphical workstation ; MVC was applied to distributed applications later in its history ( see Model 2 ).

Whereas the term chess puzzle refers broadly to any puzzle involving aspects of chess, a chess problem is an orthodox puzzle ( see below ) in which one must play and win or draw a game, starting with a certain composition of pieces on the chess board, and playing within the standard rules of chess.

Whereas originally a barony might consist of two or more manors, by 1700 we see what were formerly single manors erected into baronies, counties or even marquisates.

Whereas 78 percent of the articles in the 1931 volume of Journal of Physical Anthropology employed these or similar terms, only 36 percent did so in 1965 ( see African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955-1968 )), and just 28 percent did in 1996.

Whereas the Sovereign's eldest son is born Duke of Cornwall he must be made or created Earl of Chester ( and Prince of Wales ; see the Prince Henry's Charter Case ( 1611 ) 1 Bulst 133 ; 80 ER 827 ).

Whereas the focus there is on philosophy and integration with the theories created within knowledge management – a holistic approach – the focus of PIM research is on collecting statistically relevant data to support the core hypothesis of PIM ( see for example the work of Steve Whittaker ), and on creating and validating tools for PIM ( see works by William Jones or David Karger ).

Whereas emigrants have likely chosen to leave one place and become immigrants in a different clime, not usually expecting to return, émigrés see exile as a temporary expedient forced on them by political circumstances.

Whereas chains of other infixed symbols ( e. g. 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 ) can often be considered in fragments ( e. g. ( 3 + 4 ) + 5 + ( 6 + 7 )) without a change of meaning ( see associativity ), or at least can be evaluated step by step in a prescribed order, e. g. 2 < sup > 3 < sup > 4 </ sup ></ sup > from right to left, that is not so with Conway's arrow.

Whereas efficient exact algorithms have been found for the signed sorting by reversals see Shamir, Robert Tarjan | Tarjan, 1997, the problem of sorting by reversals has been proven to be hard even to approximate to within certain constant factor Marek Karpinski | Karpinski, 1999, and also proven to be approximable in polynomial time to within the approximation factor 1. 375 Marek Karpinski | Karpinski, Hannenhalli, 2002.

Whereas the guards in the previous game could only see in straight lines, the guards in Metal Gear 2 all have a field of vision of 45 degrees.

Whereas context-free grammars have rules for rewriting symbols as strings of other symbols, tree-adjoining grammars have rules for rewriting the nodes of trees as other trees ( see tree ( graph theory ) and tree ( data structure )).

Whereas viewing the Aleph causes the observer to see all things, viewing the Zahir causes the observer eventually to see only the Zahir.

Whereas in the past Zhang Chu's music had often been categorized as " humanistic " and " socially conscious ", in this album we see him retreating deeper into his own psyche, isolation and mental conflicts became the overwhelming theme.

Whereas it was common in the philosophy of the time to see the conditional subject as abstract and the object as concrete, Gentile postulated the opposite, that the subject is the concrete and the object is an abstraction ( or rather, that what was conventionally dubbed " subject " is in fact only conditional object, and that the true subject is the ' act of ' being or essence of the object ).

Whereas conservative scholars blame working poverty on too much government intervention, liberal scholars see the working poverty problem as a case of too little government intervention.

Whereas Sadducees favored a limited interpretation of the Torah, Pharisees debated new applications of the law and devised ways for all Jews to incorporate purity practices ( hitherto limited to the Jerusalem Temple, see also Ministry of Jesus # Ritual cleanliness ) in their everyday lives.

Whereas one used to be able to see a relatively recent theatrical film on prime time commercial network television every night of the week, this is now done only occasionally.

Whereas a person with a psychological disorder thinks their hallucinations are real, people with peduncular hallucinosis normally know that the visual hallucinations they see are not real.

Whereas Dick doesn't understand why Mel loves Howard, Angela can see that the pair love each other and in the series one finale, Angela defends Howard after Dick refuses to give him the car keys to rescue Mel.

Whereas with rational thought one uses logic to understand, one does the opposite with God ( see also Apophatic theology ).